I'm starting my new recording. Okay, great. All right, I think we can get going here.

Cool. Awesome. Well, welcome everybody to another exciting episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home experience for, in this case, Friday May 14th, 2021.

Today we have some special guests.

We've got Greg and we've got Nigel.

This conversation kind of, I guess,

oh and I guess I'll introduce myself and Brian too so I am I am Chris Mseina a man of the Twitterverse

and product designer etc and of course Brian is my my co-host who actually does the daily Tech Mem Ride Home show.

Today's conversation stems out of a lot of what we've been talking about around the creator economy,

the I suppose the passion economy, and how money is

starting to be introduced into this space. And in particular, I believe it was

last week we started the show really talking about some high-level

launches in a recent acquisition by Twitter of a company called scroll and how this

fits into a larger shift in the industry or at least I believe it is a larger

shift towards more direct relationships between the I guess the people who consume content and the people who produce it,

as opposed to being intermediated by advertisers who are sort of going along for the ride

like Barnacles on content and taking advantage of that attention resource.

So I tweeted something out about this in relationship to a Axios piece and so Axios, I'll have to find that tweet and pin it,

basically sort of did a little bit of a chart looking at a number of the

different platform features that people have put out there and then Greg came along and kind of touched it up and then

did a nice little thread that went deeper into the space and asked some questions about tipping, which then started a conversation.

And so given that we wanted to actually open this conversation up to a Twitter space and to go a little bit deeper

into where we think this might go and what this might do to social media,

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